Sonia Delaunay

Sonia Delaunay
Sonia Delaunay-Terk is a Ukrainian artist and designer known for her bold use of color in abstract geometric patterns. "For me, there is no difference between my painting and my so-called decorative work," she says. "I have never considered minor art artistically frustrating; on the contrary, it is an extension of my art." Born Sarah Stern on November 14, 1885 in Gradizhsk, Ukraine, she studied drawing at the Karlsruhe Academy of Fine Arts in 1903 with Ludwig Schmidt-Reutler. She moved to Paris in 1905 and her paintings were influenced by Fauvism and featured vivid colors. The unique style she created with her husband Robert Delaunay, is a fusion of cubism and futurism that Guillaume Apollinaire nicknamed orphism. She continued to explore this aesthetic throughout her career through textiles and interior design. In 1964, Delaunay became the first living female artist to be granted a retrospective at the Louvre in Paris. She died on December 5, 1979 in Paris at the age of 94, after having donated all of her graphic works to the Centre Pompidou three years earlier.
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